[asterisk-users] Sort of OT: PBX vs CO

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:04:45PM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
>    Asterisk is _NOT_ a switch.  Asterisk is not a transit element. 
> Asterisk is an *endpoint*.  It makes for a nice PBX, feature server, etc.
> Kind of like the BroadSoft, but on a much smaller scale.
> 
> > I hadn't been tracking oSS7 lately; didn't realize that.
> 
>    As far as I can tell, it's still pretty useless.  There are a variety of 
> commercial/proprietary SS7 solutions available, though, but I haven't
> tinkered.  And in any case they don't strike me as being able to interface
> with Asterisk.

Those two thoughts tie into one another.  You can make a CO switch into
a PBX, but usually not the other way around.

Cheers,
-- jra
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